The struggle of the reborn prince

It's the dog days now, Zhao Tang and Jianxi have been bored in the Taoist temple for a few days, the alchemy room is in a mess, the ground is full of dross, and there are a few broken crucibles thrown at the door, if you look carefully, you can still see Fluorescent lights were shining inside.

"Jianxi, did you write down the recipe just now?" Zhao Tang asked while stirring in the crucible.

"Second Lord, I've made a note of that bastard Qingyun. When we catch him, he will be beaten to a half-mutilation. What a broken formula, it's probably fake!" Jian Xi said angrily. The explosions he personally made were more than Qing Yun’s for a year. His hair and eyebrows were all scorched, and his clothes were almost like sieves. His arms and flesh were exposed, and his face was bald by the scorching flames. The skin is black and white like a giant panda.

Zhao Tang didn't hear Xi's complaints, he added some white powder into the crucible again, the cloudy liquid in the pot gradually became clear, he was studying the notes left by Qing Yun, there is a formula for making colored glaze, He failed a few times, and now he's cutting again from memory.

The Taoist priests said that the refined colored glaze was actually glass. They thought it was a kind of jade, a precious material for preparing elixir, and it was crushed and added to the elixir. People who ate it could grow like jade. Live a hundred years.Zhao Tang doesn't believe this at all, people have to pull it out after eating it, if the glass shards don't pierce the intestines, they are lucky, and they can live a long life, dreaming!

Glass is an extremely common thing in later generations, but it is a rare treasure now, and Zhao Tong knows that the raw materials of glass are also very common, just sand, lime and soda ash, and it is easy to find. The difficulty for him is the formula , he didn't know the ratio, so he could only experiment according to Qingyun's formula, and wanted to figure out the craft first.After several tests, he knew that the ancients were not stupid. In order to prevent others from stealing the art, Qingyun tampered with the formula. Only he could figure out the password. It was just a pain for the two of them, so he had to try a little bit, but it was good. Zhao Tong knew what he had used, and he couldn't find it in other people's doors.

"Jianxi, turn up the fire!" Zhao Tun ordered Jianxi while observing. Jianxi added a few more shovels of coal to the stove, and pulled the bellows with a 'thud-thud-thud', the flames sprang up, and the crucible became It was glowing red, and it was more than 1000 degrees.

"Second Master, be careful, don't blow up the pot again!" Jian Xi said tremblingly, this situation has happened many times.

"Don't be afraid, as long as we succeed, you can lie on the gold ingot and sleep!" The raw materials in the crucible were slowly fused and boiled under the stirring of Zhao Tong, and bubbles kept popping up, and Zhao Tuo continued to float the gold ingots on top. Putting aside the impurities, he felt that this success was right in front of him, and he joked happily in his heart.

"Second Master, what are you doing that is worth as much as you said?" Jian Xi said, wiping the sweat off his face.

"This is the so-called Liuli, but what we make is better than Qingyun and the Persians. How much do you think we can sell it for?"

"Ah?! This is colored glaze!" Jianxi was taken aback. He didn't expect that he would help the prince make colored glaze. He knew how much this thing was worth. There were several colored glass cups in the palace. I can't bear to use it, it's worth a million bucks.

"I didn't expect that!" Zhao Tong said with a smile. The Song Dynasty was the most affluent era in history. There were so many rich people, and there was nowhere to spend their money, so they liked to buy some rare things to show off. This is no different from modern times, and Liuli can just meet their needs and find a place for their money. Zhao Tang seems to have seen the piles of sand turned into big golden ingots, rolling in and flowing into his pocket.

Seeing that the heat was almost ready, Zhao Tang scooped out a little bit with a spoon and poured it on the stone slab. The bright red liquid cooled slowly and gradually turned into a transparent crystal, "Jianxi, don't burn it, keep this temperature!" He waited The crystal was completely cooled, picked it up and held it in the hand, and exposed it to the sun. It was crystal clear and transparent. Although it still had a hint of green, it was almost the same as the inferior glass of later generations.

"Jianxi, we have succeeded!" Zhao Tuo yelled fiercely, and threw himself on Jianxi, who was thrown to the ground without any preparation.Jianxi was taken aback for a moment, and quickly realized that another major invention of the prince was born, of course, it also included his own credit.

Glass has been manufactured, but it takes a lot of work to convert it into money. Zhao Tang only saw glass blowers when he was a teenager. At that time, the reform and opening up had just started, and various small workshops sprung up everywhere.Someone set up a small glass factory next to their house to produce soda bottles and window glass. The quality is not as good as that of big factories, but it is cheaper. Their equipment is simple, a crucible, two iron scissors, and a few blowpipes. It can start work, and the craft also adopts traditional artificial blowing.

The factory buildings are all open-air, seeing the master craftsmen use blowpipes to dip a piece of red glass water, with the cooperation of hands and mouths, turn left and right, turning it into crystal clear bottles like magic, yes Children are still very attractive. At that time, he and his friends often went to see rare things, but they only looked at rare things. He had never manipulated them specifically, and it was impossible for others to let him touch them.

The next day, Zhao Tang walked into the 'laboratory' with a few tools that the blacksmith had forged overnight, but found that the crucible had been glued to the solidified glass liquid, so he had no choice but to change the crucible and start over.Refining the glass water, Zhao Tang imitated the appearance of the "master" in his memory, picked up a piece of glass liquid with a blowpipe, cut it with iron scissors, took a deep breath, puffed up his cheeks and blew out the most valuable breath in his life, the glass liquid It was puffed up, but Zhao Tun had lost his energy. When he took a breath, the 'small balloon' hanging on the blowpipe cooled down rapidly, and could no longer blow it.

"Failure is the mother of success!" Zhao Tun comforted himself, changed another piece, and failed again.Once, twice, three times... the two of them tossed for a whole day, looking at the piles of twisted and crooked works on the ground, which couldn't stand upright or stand upright, they wanted to cry but had no tears.

"It's too shocking..." Zhao Tong picked up the hammer and smashed them into pieces of glass. Looking at the stains all over his body and his small black hands, he sighed and sat on the ground. Why is it so difficult to do something? , when other princes were so old, they would eat and sleep and be happy, but this prince himself was busier than anyone else. He was busy planning the future to save the Song Dynasty, busy building bridges and paving roads to improve people's livelihood, and building factories and growing vegetables. Earn money in the right way... He really wants to jump up and scold his stupid father, you said that you are not a good emperor, and you make troubles all day long, and I will be unlucky too...

"Second Master, don't be angry, we can't handle it well, can't we change someone?" Seeing Zhao Tong's frustration, Jian Xi asked cautiously.

"Who should change it? No one has seen this thing in the entire Song Dynasty. Who has this technology?" Zhao Tang shook his head and said.

"Second Master, I didn't mean to ask them to make colored glaze. They just wanted to make glass, and we can't tell him if it is true. What I mean is to find someone who can blow glass and let him blow glass for us!" Jian Xi said with a smile.

"Who can blow it, who can blow it?" Zhao Tong's spirit lifted, this idea was good.

"Second Lord, I think your bragging is a bit like that sugar blower walking around the streets. Let's find two sugar blowers to try!"

"Cough..." Zhao Teng was so breathless, he really dared to think, a sugar figure is only a penny, and making a finished product by himself is enough for him to be a sugar figure for a lifetime, but now there is no one else. You can try it, "Okay, you will send someone to find two craftsmen with the best skills tomorrow and let them try, but you have to find a way to prevent him from revealing our secret!"

"There is only one way to prevent him from revealing the secret, and that is to cut off his tongue, so that he will not be able to speak for the rest of his life!" Jian Xi said fiercely while rubbing his smooth chin.

"You are really wicked. There are two ways to keep people from revealing their secrets, besides death and cutting off their tongues: one is to give him enough money so that he can't bear to tell it; the other is to let him know that it was revealed I might as well die!" Zhao Tong said with a smile.

"Second Master, what are you going to do to me?" Seeing the smiling face of Wang Ye, Jianxi asked shamelessly.

"Fuck off, you fucking want me to kill you with money. If you can't handle this, I'll cut off your tongue!" Zhao Tang kicked him and cursed.

"Second Lord, I'm going to find Shunzi right now. This guy is scary just looking at him. He can do this kind of thing. If he's as strict as a dead man, he can definitely do it!" Jian Xi rubbed his thigh, Said with a hippie smile.

Zhao Tong is speechless, Jianxi is really getting smarter and smarter under his own training, and his mind is getting worse and worse. Now that he is mixing with that cold guy Shunzi again, I am afraid that a new generation of black and white impermanence will be born again. up.

Jianxi and Shunzi are very efficient in their work. Three days later, the craftsmen of the sugar blower were 'find', but they were not two people. Bring it back, the meaning is obvious, if you dare to say it, the whole family will die!

If it’s not about the fact that laymen watch the fun and experts watch the doorway, Zhao Tuo just demonstrated the process to the two guys, and the two of them blew up the glass water as syrup, and they figured out the main points of the operation after only wasting a pot of glass water. Then two decent fist-sized cups appeared on Zhao Tong's table.

Zhao Tang quickly sent the two finished products to Huang Jingchen's desk to ask him to estimate the price. The old man looked at the crystal clear glass and suspected it was a divine artifact. After examining it for a long time, he gave a conservative price of [-] guan each.Without further ado, Zhao Tun immediately distributed it to Huang Jingchen in wholesale, asking him to find a market, and the extra price difference would be considered as his future activity expenses!

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Zhao Tong still has a lot of big things to do next, and this glass shop is naturally handed over to Jian Xi, who is even more lazy, so he picked two slow-brained, dull, well-behaved, and three-footed kicks without farting. After training for a while, let them serve the glass kiln exclusively.He divided the required ingredients in advance, and marked 1, 2, 3... The two of them are like robots with a programmed program, as long as they feed the ingredients according to the heat.

Therefore, the workshop with the least investment in manpower and material resources and the largest output ratio among the industries in the Zhao Mansion was born. Fortunately, Zhao Tun is not greedy for money. A lot of money in the middle of the day was transferred to the Zhao Mansion...